If Romney had used Newt’s tactics, even a pale imitation, he’d have won. Look at the first debate.
True. And I think a few proto-candidates were watching in 2012, including Cruz. But I have yet to see the man who could take apart the left wing media and stomp on the pieces the way Newt did.
I agree. Romney ran an effective campaign in the primary and looked good until mid-summer when they went limp. No purpose, no new ideas, and other than that one debate, no underlying purpose. In the primary in Florida, he ran very effective positive ads in Florida for a month or more during the primary. If he had just run that same ad nationally in the summer, it would have combated the ‘Romney killed my wife ads’. Instead, crickets.
My theory is that the Supreme Court decision to allow Obamacare utterly killed their campaign plan, and they didn’t have a plan B.